WASHINGTON, D.C. - Penn
sylvania Farmers Union members
met with the new U.S.D.A.
Secretary, Richard Lyng, on April
8 while in town for a two-day
lobbying trip.
Members of the general family
farm organization discussed a
variety of concerns with the
Secretary, including:
• Sodbuster regulations which,
as currently written, would make
the normal soil conservation
practice of rotating crops on
contour strips a violation leaving a
farmer ineligible for participation
in farm programs.
• A foreign-owned 10,000 head
dairy operation in Georgia, much
of which was financed through
Georgia’s tax exempt bonds.
• The downward effect that the
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whole-herd buyout dairy program
is having on beef prices paid to
farmers, due to increased numbers
of cows available for slaughter.
• The need to keep milk prices at
a fair level for dairy farmers still
in production, so they won’t need to
increase their milk output in order
to maintain their cash flow,
thereby defeating the purpose of
the whole-herd buyout.
• The possibility of a quota
system in the dairy industry that
would focus milk production on
meeting demand instead of
producing as much as possible.
• The need to 'maintain funding
for essential agencies, such as the
Soil Conservation Service and the
Rural Electric Administration.
“We were pleased that the
Secretary took the time to speak
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with us and hear us out,” said
Pennsylvania Farmers Union
President David Stetler, “but we
were very disappointed by his
apparent unwillingness to answer
our questions or even to look into
the problems we raised.”
When asked if U.S.D.A. could
apportion the number of cows
Pennsylvania Farmers Union members met recently with U.S.D.A. Secretary, Richard
Lynge. (left to right) Lyng; Jack Rynd, President of Farmers Union Milk Producers’
Association; Arden Tewksbury, General Manager of Northern Tier F.U.M.P.A.; and
David Stetler, President of PA Farmers Union.
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going to slaughter under the whole- farm bill,” Stetler said. “Surely,
herd buyout program, the he has the authority to make
Secretary responded that the U.S.D.A.’s programs run the way
government was not in the beef- they were intended to and deal
buying business and that he did not with unexpected consequences
feel he had the authority to in- when they come up.”
tervene. The Pennsylvania
“The Secretary was given more Union represents family'farmers
discretion than ever in the last in 31 chartered counties across the
Commonwealth.
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